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I encountered a problem with a firewall blocking traffic even though it was supposed to let traffic through. This particular policy used nested object grouping (Main group > Sub-group > NetworkAdr-member). The odd thing was, it seemed to only affect one vDom. What was happening: The traffic did not match the configured policy and was […]

Just thought I’d drop a post on a compatability issue which caused a lot of hassle for us. Problem: Problems establishing site to site VPN between FortiGate 1500D and Check Point 1430 appliance with Gaia embedded. Error: Main Mode Sent Notification to Peer: payload malformed – possibly a mismatch in pre-shared keys Background: We were […]

Just a quick note about the auto-script functionality and how to run multiple commands, because this had me stomped on a Monday morning. (Thank you FortiNet for your sparse documentation) There is no fancy solution, no special new line characters, no encapsulating the commands in quatation marks and separating them by a delimiter or anything […]